In this article, Jane Hampton Cook writes about the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, a key event in the Women’s Suffrage Movement... (Read More)
Melissa Davenport Berry tells how America – and especially Anna White – gave WWI soldiers a wonderful Christmas gift in 1917: warm, knitted woolens... (Read More)
An article about the Wright brothers making history on 17 December 1903: flying a powered aircraft with fixed wings – the first real airplane... (Read More)
On 12 December 1862 the U.S.S. Cairo became the first ship in history to be sunk by a mine detonated electronically – a new military weapon was born... (Read More)
An article about Nellie Bly racing around the world in 1889-90 to beat Jules Verne’s record in the 1873 novel “Around the World in Eighty Days.”.. (Read More)
An article about the fatal Antarctic expedition of Captain Robert F. Scott in 1912 that ended with the deaths of five men... (Read More)
Melissa Davenport Berry describes how Ron Guilmette researched old newspaper articles to tell the story of the nation’s first state police department... (Read More)
An article about the surrender of the Confederate warship Shenandoah after it had fired the last shot of the Civil War... (Read More)
An article about Walter Summerford, a man struck four times by lightning – three times while alive, and once after he was lying in his grave!.. (Read More)
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